Ancient DNA has provided spectacular insights into human history, particularly in Europe and Asia, where researchers have reconstructed the genomes of thousands of people. However, fewer than two ...

A new study offers the most detailed glimpse yet into how Earth's surface temperature has changed over the past 485 million years. The data show that Earth has been and can be warmer than today -- but ...

A new study co-led by the Smithsonian and the University of Arizona offers the most detailed glimpse yet of how Earth’s ...

A team of researchers from the University of Cape Town (South Africa) and the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary ...

In The Black Image in the White Mind, historian George M. Frederickson writes, “In the years immediately before and after ...

Researchers have now decoded a Babylonian tablet, which is thought to be the oldest map of the world. It was created between ...

Palestinian history and geography were scrubbed from Israeli schoolbooks a decade ago, scholar Nurit Peled-Elhanan says.

In a groundbreaking discovery, astronomers recently identified a smiley-face-shaped structure on Mars that may offer new ...

On a bright June morning in Cooperstown, N.Y., Dr. Fred Worth pulled into Lakewood Cemetery on the eastern shore of Otsego ...

A cataclysm engulfed the planet some 252 million years ago, wiping out more than 90% of all life. Known as the Great Dying, ...

What it tells us about the past: This tablet, which depicts how Babylonians perceived the world thousands of years ago, is peppered with details that ... note each location on the map, according to ...

In 1974, Max Volterra defeated Paul Lallier in the Democratic primary for state representative in Attleboro. Since there was no Republican on the ballot, Volterra was virtually assured of victory ...